<p>Just wondering on advice… got into the NYU gsp program and BU CAS Honors wiht a half scholarship… which one should i take?</p>
<p>Is gsp General Studies? Well, this is funny because if so GS is CGS at BU and you got into honors in the regular school. The answer is obvious . . .</p>
<p>i would agree. i think you're betteroff going to a place that put you into the honors program.</p>
<p>I got into NYU GSP and BU (not honors) with the terrier scholarship... which would be better?</p>
<p>i honestly would chose the place with the scholarship. it's less money to spend. plus if you are in the general studies program at NYU, you wont have the chance to pick your classes, right? you'll get that freedom at BU.</p>
<p>your rite about the plus points scholarship etc... in the end one would end up with a NYU degree or a BU degree with honors.. my question which holds more credibility?</p>
<p>Doesn't matter. This topic has been beaten to death. You're not comparing Harvard to NYU so any difference between BU and NYU is marginal. I suppose if you live in NYC or in Boston and you know you want to stay there, then being local might make a networking difference, but even that is not really a big deal.</p>
<p>There are many threads debating this choice. My s chose BU over NYU primarily because BU had more of a campus, all relative, and Boston is a huge college town. NYC has some advantages but its huge and the housing at NYU is spread all over. BU is very urban but Boston feels like more of a "town" since its a managable size. You can't go wrong with either choice.</p>
<p>DONT GO TO BU!!! it sucks</p>
<p>dont make the same mistake i made by rejecting nyu</p>
<p>shoe gal- be constructive...they want to know the differences between the two, not if it sucks or not</p>
<p>obviously you are thread stalking me buddy aztec. i am trying to be helpful . i regret making the wrong decision. and i have the right to say what i want. i dont know if bu is paying you to find people bashing it...but this thread is about speaking your mind about the choice the person is making...not giving criticism about someone else's post.
i posted here because i would like to share my own experience. the decision the person makes will ultimately be theirs and they can take into account whatever they think they should. i am just telling them that they should think twice about this decision because their happiness is the ultimate factor here</p>
<p>Saying 'it sucks' isnt helpful...You just look like a troll. Being from Ditzyville USA, AKA the OC doesnt help either.</p>
<p>The OP is apparently trying to decide based on the relative worth of a BU degree vs. NYU degree. I feel that it is not right way to decide. Depending on where one fits better, either BU or NYU can be fantastic. It is clear that shoe7gal87 didn't fit in BU, although she got into the Uni Prof program which has been wonderful for many others. I know this because I talked to some of them. I researched BU quite a lot and found that it has a lot of positives. (I got admitted to BU with a Trustee Scholarship, but I declined because I didn't think it was a good fit for me.)</p>
<p>You know, it's very interesting to compare the attitudes of NYU versus BU posts in general. If you go to any NYU forum anywhere and ask "where should I go", you'll get a bunch of "NYU, of course" answers - usually in one line with no explanation. I've seen people say "Brown vs NYU", "Penn vs NYU," "Cornell vs NYU" and each time the same people post their same "NYU of course. Um, yeah, only if you're completely a chauvinist.</p>
<p>By contrast, BU posters are much more open to acknowledging choice. </p>
<p>If you dig into NYU issues, you find a bunch of material that says exactly the same kind of thing you hear as BU's negatives. In some cases worse and in some cases better. Huge, impersonal, administrative nightmare, no campus, no green space at all, dorms too far from class, no sense of community, really big classes, grading issues, uneven academic quality, no traditions, too expensive, people all go home or have their friends in the city. Those are NYU comments.</p>
<p>The schools are strikingly similar. NYU is probably a better choice for someone committed to an intro level job on Wall Street - because it's physically there - but the real difference seems to be that NYU draws most of its kids from the NY area. They don't actually publicize their diversity stats - except generally - but they acknowledge their top 5 sources are all local NY schools. That means only that NYU has NYC pride.</p>
<p>BU is not a Boston school the way NYU is a New York school. BU is 20% from the entire state, which means it doesn't have that hardcore local pride thing going on. NYU's sense of self is based on that local pride thing, much like the way a public university has its local following.</p>
<p>As for quality, I've said about 100 times, you're not comparing Harvard to Dimwhistle State. The schools are relatively equal.</p>
<p>More importantly, I was talking today with a guy whose son works for a major hotel chain. His kid's ultimate boss went to UMass and so did his son. Is Cornell more prestigious? Sure, but going to that hotel admin school doesn't mean you'll be running a big chain.</p>
<p>NYU of course!</p>
<p>Er... why? I got in NYU GSP and turned it down for BU. </p>
<p>-The GSP Coot66</p>
<p>Coot, I traced this person's posts and this person, a parent it seems, has an axe to grind with BU because BU didn't give his son a merit scholarship. I note you actually saw that in another thread but you may not recognize the poster.</p>
<p>It's funny how people react. I remember calling up a very prestigious school to discuss with them their offer and they very curtly said, "We don't negotiate anything," and essentially hung up. I can tell you also that another very prestigious school managed to care so little that they lost my kid's transcript every time it was sent, even when it was delivered by overnight and signed for. Just kept saying, "Oh no, we don't have that." </p>
<p>You never know how people react, except we know that crazed has no actual experience with BU, only bad feelings about the admissions process which he or she can't let go.</p>
<p>Nah, Lergnom, I noticed. I just happened to respond to this thread first and then chose to elaborate in the other one...</p>
<p>-The Elaborating Coot66</p>
<p>NYU GSP or BU Honors with a scholarship? This shouldn't even be a question.</p>